Gaurav Nardia

@rauchg.blue this one's for you. I Built Better Vercel I built something over the last 4 weeks. It started with a simple frustration. And main thing is i wanted to learn how deployment platforms works. Full demo: x.com/gaurav_nardi...

15 July

A random 40 years old man at the gym asked me for diet and workout advice today. i don't know when that started happening. but it felt good.

7 July

The servers can wait.

6 July

The honest job search update: Two startup (SF, NYC) interviews this week. both found me through my work, not a job board. if you're hiring a full stack engineer who ships fast, owns problems end to end, and doesn't need to be told what to do next — i'd love to talk. gauravnardia.com

5 July

The story behind the story is harder than anything i've posted about. But i'm still here. Still building. Still going. Still working with same intensity. Because one day this whole thing becomes something worth telling. And i want to be the one telling it.

28 June

If you haven't gotten what you want, then you're not worthy of it. And that's okay. Now you can admit that you suck and improve. It's better to know you're bad for a season than pretend you're good for a lifetime.

25 June

Most ambitious people never say they are ambitious. They are just doing their stuff.

a year ago i was a kid from haryana, india. no degree. no network. no roadmap. just a laptop and a belief that if i build things that matter, the right people will find me. so i started building. 🧵

the goal is simple. SF or NYC before december. not as a tourist. as an engineer who built his way there from a city nobody in tech has heard of.

i'm 22. i build alone. i ship fast. i don't stop until it works. if you're hiring at a devtools or infra company — i'd love to talk. everything i've built: gauravnardia.com i'm not waiting for permission. just building until someone says come over.

→ joined peerlist. → built better-vercel.com. alone. 5 weeks. full deployment platform. BYOC, AWS provisioning, multi-framework, custom domains, SSL, CI/CD. the thing vercel's enterprise customers keep asking for. @vercel.com @railway.com

my tweets have reached people in SF and london. founders i've admired for years have responded to my cold messages. i haven't left india yet. that's the part i'm working on.

→ built trybit.in. devs prove skills by solving real challenges. 300+ signups and $400 in 30 days. zero marketing. zero budget. → contributed to nimbus.storage. built the entire OneDrive SDK from scratch. → built Spotify MCP server for klavish AI.

"i was in a small city in india, building alone, tweeting into the void and then someone in SF saw it and said come over." manifesting that someone is reading this right now.

i built a vercel alternative in 5 weeks. not a clone. not a tutorial project. A real deployment platform with BYOC support, automated AWS infrastructure provisioning, multi-framework detection, custom domains, SSL, and CI/CD. solo. from india. it's live. gauravnardia.com

16 June

I recently turned 22 in May, no degree, no co-founder, no funding. I built a deployment platform in 5 weeks that solves the exact problem vercel's enterprise customers complain about. it's live. it works. I'm available gauravnardia.com

community.vercel.comVercel Weekly (2026-06-15)June 5, 2026 - June 12, 2026 Top Highlights AI SDK 7 now supports HarnessAgent, a unified API for programming established agent frameworks like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, allowing de...

16 June

Lets go🚀

Amy Egan@amyegan.dev

As usual, @vercel.community shipped some awesome things last week! Please excuse my light mode clothing choice in the video. We're facing extreme heat and drought where I live, and I've been exploring a lot of carefully crafted open source projects lately, so a handmade linen dress felt right

15 June

the best interview i could give is a walkthrough of this codebase. i'm ready when you are.

14 June

vercel is a great product. i built one anyway.

14 June

At some point you stop asking if you're good enough and just show them.

11 June

need a company that looks at my portfolio and says: "yeah let's import this guy to London" that's it. that's the tweet.

11 June

crazy that my side projects have reached people in london and sf before i have. PS: Looking for engineering role, portfolio: gauravnardia.com

What I shipped in 4 weeks: → Git-push deployments for all frontend frameworks → BYOC with one-click CloudFormation provisioning → Provider abstraction layer built for multi-cloud from day one → Real-time logs → Custom domains with automatic DNS and SSL → Environment variables and usage tracking

x.comGaurav Nardia (@gaurav_nardia) on X@rauchg I built something and I think you should see it. It started with a simple frustration. Every time a team outgrows @vercel pricing, their only option is to self-host and self-hosting means r...

→ Rollback and Redeploy → Production and Preview deployments Here's the full Demo: x.com/gaurav_nardi...

Am I just moving the lock-in problem from Vercel to AWS? So I went one step further. I built a provider abstraction layer. The platform itself has no opinion on which cloud you use. AWS is live right now. But any other provider like GCP, Azure, whatever is one interface implementation away.

Swap the provider, everything else stays exactly the same. Same DX. Same deployment flow. Different cloud.That's the part I'm most proud of. It's not just BYOC. It's actual portability.

That felt like a solvable problem. So I solved it. I built BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud.) You click one button, connect your AWS account, and CloudFormation runs inside your own account.